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Via.com Appoints V Swaminathan As CEO,Vinay Gupta Now Chairman

March 6, 2013

Online travel agent Via.com has appointed V Swaminathan as its new CEO starting January 2013, Swaminathan has confirmed to MediaNama. Prior to this appointment, Swaminathan was COO of Via.com. Prior to joining Via, he has also worked with Sabre Holdings and TT Services.

Via.com, South East Asia's leading travel network with leadership position in India, The Philippines and Indonesia today entered into an exclusive strategic alliance with Tiger Airways Singapore, one of Asia's leading low cost carriers.

Via Bus Tours, part of the Bangalore-based travel operator Via Group, is betting big on the domestic pilgrimage tourism market, with plans to add 16 more multi-axle luxury Volvo buses to its existing fleet of four in the next two quarters to connect major cities and towns with pilgrimage centres.

Bangalore-based Via, one of the largest players in the domestic travel market in India having presence in 2,400 cities and a network of close to 20,000 travel agents, has acquired Jalandhar-based travel company TSC travel Services (Pvt) Ltd.